By John Morrison
Profiles Cornel West, a pupil in African-American experiences who has taught at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, and written many books together with Race Matters..
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Many of the students came here to study with Anthony and Cornel,” Gates said about Harvard, “and even with me. ” 54 Harvard Dust-Up Still, West was not the only Harvard University professor Summers had upset. In one meeting, he asked the head of the School of Education to justify the very existence of his program. ” West was welcomed like a conquering hero when he returned to Princeton University. He became the Class of 1943 University Professor of Religion. Among those who welcomed him was Princeton President Shirley M.
Many conservatives, on the other hand, think that blacks—especially young black men in urban ghettoes—must change their ways. They should stay married, support their children, and obey the law. Both approaches wind up at the same conclusion: blacks are a problem people. B. Du Bois responding to what he called the “unasked question” in his book, The Souls of Black Folk (1903): They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then instead of saying directly, How does it feel to be a problem?
Wanted to establish an even greater African-American studies program at Harvard, and he was trying to hire black scholars to run it. GATES’ DREAM TEAM Gates, who was born in 1950, was a young black man in a hurry, just like Cornel West. He took over Harvard’s African-American Studies Department in 1991, when he was only 41, determined to make it work. One of the problems he faced was the feeling among some academics that an African-American study program was not a legitimate curriculum for a major university.